“People bring their own skills at reading language to reading language, skills at understanding poetry– meter, rhythm, imagery. If you’re not skilled you read it on one level, if you’re more skilled you begin to read it on another. and generally we are illiterate visually, which is one issue that I’m trying to address, and secondly, it’s a new language. and it’s women who are hungry for a language and for forms, and they want them to be everything they want them to be.”
